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Artist Unknown (2016)
Look in the mirror, America.
In an essay on BillMoyers.com, Gabler writes:
The larger portion of the blame lies with the citizens of the nation that Donald Trump insists only he can make great again. Fake news thrives because there is a lazy, incurious, self-satisfied public that wants it to thrive; because large swaths of that public don’t want news in any traditional sense, so much as they want vindication of their preconceptions and prejudices; because in this post-modernist age, every alleged fact is supposed to be a politico-economic construct, and nothing can possibly be true; and because even rationality now is passé. Above all else, fake news is a lazy person’s news. It provides passive entertainment, demanding nothing of us. And that is a major reason we now have a fake news president.
Yes, Prime Minister - The Ministerial Broadcast (1986)
So close to the election, this scene from a BBC sitcom seems appropriate. It’s a great example of how polls can be designed to achieve desired results.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Conspiracies (Web Exclusive) (2016)
Wake up, Sheeple! John Oliver critiques YouTube conspiracy videos by creating one of his own.
David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) writes:
...how do folks continue to ignore facts? How have people’s viewpoints become so insular and isolated that any contradictory information never even penetrates the bubble? How did we get to a point where dialogue is impossible? And I’m not just referring to this presidential race, but to many other areas of discussion as well. Am I imagining this or has the echo chamber, where one only hears what one agrees with, expanded in scope and at the same time had the effect of increasing that anger and the inability to have a dialogue?
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